Question

How do you find the slope given `y = -x - 2`?

Answer 1

Slope is `-1`.

Explanation:

When an equation is written in slope intercept form such as `y=mx+c`, note `y` is on LHS with coefficient `1` and `x` and constant term is on RHS, then `m`, the coefficient of `x` is slope of the line and `c` is intercept of the line on `y`-axis.

Here equation `y=-x-2` is already in slope intercept form and hence slope is `-1`.